The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-12-22
FARM AND FlResloE.


Only sober help 20 caro- for stock.
Care well for stock during "bliz-
Yards"
Tomato Short-cake; Make crust
rs for blackberries, select good. ripe
meal tomatoes, cut in slices one-halfinch
thick, prepare and serve same as straw
berry. using little less sug-r--Fdrn'er
aud Manufacturer.
Poor sheep are always hard TOWN.
tor. and there is really no necessity for
their getting poor; in fact !: does not
pay. While It is not necessary that
they should be fat, vet it is necessary
that they should he kept In good con-
dition.
jam Triiles: Beat three eggs well.
add little salt and -four enough to
make thick paste. Roll out and cut
into very thin cakes and fry in hot lard.
Spread half of them with jam or jelly,
and use the other half for upper crusts
or covers Detroit Free Press.
Egg Pudding: Half pound OF
bread crumbs, half pound Of raisins.
pound of chopped apples, four eggs,
n cup of sugar, piece Of butter the size
Of an egg, spice. Boil in mold.
Serve with hard sauce = Boston Budget
Ono hundred dollars worth Of
cheese takes from the farm less than
onc-sevcnth the fertility taken by 800
worth OF grain, while 500 worth OF
butter-if the skim milk be fed On the
farm-takes nothing from the SOIL
Indianapolis Journal.
A pretty screen for tho lamp can
be made from small fan by attaching
a long piece of wire at the top, bending
it over to keep in place upon the Chin
ney; then take tiny bunch of ostrich
tips, bunch Of artificial flowers, or
pressed sea MOSES. attach 10 the center
Of the fan. and hold in place by bit Of
bright ribbon. indianapolis Journal.
How often we SEQ farmer trying
to carry on more land than he can well
do; often double the number Of acres
that he should have. IL does rot pay
to carry on farm in this fashion;
better pay taxes only on what YOU can
profitably till, Put the fertilizers on
fewer acres. raise larger crops, and YOU
will find it will pay great deal better.
-ErchdaQe.
Ribbon Cake: Two cups sugar,
one cup butter, fonreggs, one cupmilk,
two and one half cups iour. three tea
spoons OF baking powder. Take two
thirds Of this and bake in layers. and
to the third remaining add one table,
spoon nolasses. one cup chopped rails
ms. one-half cup currants, one piece
citron chopped fine; teaspoon each Of
cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Put the
layers together viii, jelly or thin frost
ing. - Boston, Budget.
-Decoying destructive insects by the
light Of lampsis often recommended by
superficial writers. The light more
frequently cntraps those which are en-
tirely harmless. or such rs are doing
the cultivator positive benefit by at
lacking or dcvouring his enemies.
Prof. Claypolc, Of Ohio. in apnpcr read
before the chronological society OF On
tario, saws those insects which are most
annoying are not attracted by light
the mosquito. for example, having no
special love for lamps. Troy Timer.
Red ants may be destroyed. ac-
cording 10 one honsekeeper, by trap
ping them. She would smear plate
with beans and set it on the shelf with
smeared tooth-pick laid from the
shelf to tho edge Of the plate, and in q
short time it would be brown. Then
she would quickly set it in hot oven,
or else in tho sink and turn boiling
water on it. Sometimes she uses scraps
Of meat or fresh meat bones, only one
at lime Cor they scatter), and in an
hour it would be brown, not even the
bone showing through them. She ex-
terminated all.